Robert Trussell | In ‘Once Upon a Mattress,’ Lauretta Pope reigns again on KC stage

Lauretta Pope, who made a mark for herself in Kansas City as a comic actress with a formidable singing voice before moving to New York in 2009, really couldn’t say no when Jeff Church, the Coterie Theatre’s artistic director, offered her a plum role: Princess Winnifred in “Once Upon a Mattress.”